Straight out of the pages of a book...

We had a ripping time on Wednesday - tearing pages out of The Bronte Sisters collection, Field Guide to Birds, The Compleat Angler and the The Home Gardening Encyclopedia to name but a few - all in the name of cardmaking! There were even a few sheet music, dictionary pages and road atlas pages that found their way on to our cards. We showed no mercy! (Please note that no first editions were hurt or damaged in the making of our cards. We had bought the pre-loved books from charity shops with the specific purpose of making cards out of them!)

We used pages for both backgrounds and embellishments. Michelle got chance to demonstrate the iTop gadget for making buttons and badges. We also die cut, doodled, stamped, distressed and watercoloured using our watercolour markers. See below for our creations.

Not sure whether it is appropriate or not to be tearing up books when it is World Book Day this week (Thurs. 6th March), although you could say we are celebrating books through art!

Double demo post...

Been a busy half term, so am combining the post-January workshop post with the pre-February post if that makes any sense at all! So without further ado, here are some of the piccies from the January die cut and die cut negative workshop. Thanks to Kay and Michelle for their demos.

This month our theme is "Book Page projects". We will be using pages from second hand books, dictionaries etc as backgrounds or to create embellishments. Here is a little taster.

Also your challenge - due in for the March workshop is to create a book page journal page (see sidebar and Pinterest for more details). You can have a go at the workshop or tear out a page to take home with you. Here's a couple I made earlier - quite enjoyed the doodling and poetry. See if you can guess the books they are taken from!! (If you look closely you should see big clues!)

Dictionary or Encyclopedia page

Book page poetry

For further details of all the journal challenges click here or on the sidebar for the instruction page.